Mitchell keeps it rolling at Lee Junior High

10:12 PM,
Jul. 12, 2014

Neville football players are used to coming up through Lee Junior High under coach Allen Wise, but future Tigers will now be under the leadership of Barry Mitchell after Wise moved on to pursue high school coaching opportunities.

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One of the most important hires a high school coach can make is finding the right guy to lead the junior high program.

It could easily be argued it's the most important. The junior high coach is responsible for teaching players the basics of the respective high school system not only offensively and defensively, but also from a strength and conditioning standpoint.

Neville football coach Mickey McCarty and Lee Junior High coach Allen Wise worked hand-in-hand building the Tigers into championship form from the very beginning when McCarty was hired in 2002. In that timespan Neville captured ...